Flathead Chief Eagle poses with a young girl on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. He wears a feather headdress and has strips of fur wrapped around his braids. He also has an otter sash across his chest and wears several beaded necklaces. A plaid breechcloth hangs from his waist. He holds a long spear, possibly a coup-stick, also wrapped in fur strips. A strap with bells on it is tied around his right leg. He and the young girl stand on a patterned blanket. The girl wears a beaded belt around her dress. She has her long hair in braids. An unidentified man lies on the ground inside the teepee in the left midground.

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Title supplied by cataloger in Western History Department, Denver Public Library.; Words "Chief Eagle Ind - Flathead Biog - Chief Eagle" penciled on back of print.

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